TapescriptPresenter Thirty seconds to go and the category is 'communication'. Next question. Who invented the telephone? Mary.Mary Was it Thomas Edison?Presenter No, it wasn't. John.John Alexander Graham Bell.Presenter Correct. In Morse code, which letter is dot-dot-dot?John SPresenter Correct, John. What is braille? Mary.Mary A kind of writing.Presenter Well...Mary Writing for the blind.Presenter Yes, I'll give it to you. What word do the Americans use for a mobile phone? What word do the Americans ... Yes, John.John I'm not sure. Carphone?Presenter No, it's not carphone. Mary? Any ideas?Mary Erm ... cardphone?Presenter No, it's 'cellphone'. Never mind. What number do you dial in the UK to get the emergency services? Mary.Mary 911 ... no, that's America. I mean 119.Presenter I'm sorry. I have to take your first answer, Mary. The correct answer was actually 999. What was first used to send a letter in ... John.John A horse?Presenter No, not a horse. Mary, you can have the whole question. What was first used to send a letter in Britain in 1840?Mary Erm ...Presenter I'll have to hurry you, Mary.Mary A stamp?Presenter A stamp is correct. And there's the signal which means that we're out of time and, looking at the scores, we can see that John's got 17 but our winner tonight, with 22 points, is Mary.

Look at the questions. Can you remember the answers to any of them? Make a guess if you are not sure.

1 Who does Mary say invented the telephone? _______________________________________________________2 What letter does John give as the answer to the second question? _______________________________________________________3 What is braille? _______________________________________________________4 What word do Americans use for 'mobile phone'? _______________________________________________________5 What number do you dial in the UK for the emergency services? _______________________________________________________6 What was first used to send a letter in Britain in 1840? _______________________________________________________

TapescriptPresenter Thirty seconds to go and the category is 'communication'. Next question. Who invented the telephone? Mary.Mary Was it Thomas Edison?Presenter No, it wasn't. John.John Alexander Graham Bell.Presenter Correct. In Morse code, which letter is dot-dot-dot?John SPresenter Correct, John. What is braille? Mary.Mary A kind of writing.Presenter Well...Mary Writing for the blind.Presenter Yes, I'll give it to you. What word do the Americans use for a mobile phone? What word do the Americans ... Yes, John.John I'm not sure. Carphone?Presenter No, it's not carphone. Mary? Any ideas?Mary Erm ... cardphone?Presenter No, it's 'cellphone'. Never mind. What number do you dial in the UK to get the emergency services? Mary.Mary 911 ... no, that's America. I mean 119.Presenter I'm sorry. I have to take your first answer, Mary. The
correct answer was actually 999. What was first used to send a letter in
... John.John A horse?Presenter No, not a horse. Mary, you can have the whole question. What was first used to send a letter in Britain in 1840?Mary Erm ...Presenter I'll have to hurry you, Mary.Mary A stamp?Presenter A stamp is correct. And there's the signal which means
that we're out of time and, looking at the scores, we can see that
John's got 17 but our winner tonight, with 22 points, is Mary.

Name of programme: 1 _________________________Name of presenter: 2 _________________________People on future programmes: Socrates, 3 _________________________, Queen Elizabeth INumber of phone lines in the world: 4 _________________________Country with most phone lines: 5 _________________________Number of phone lines in the UK: 6 _________________________TapescriptPresenterHello, and welcome to Time Travellers, the programme where we go back in time to talk to great people from the past and learn all about their lives and the reasons why they've become well-known. Of course, we can't really speak to those people, but our actors bring them to life for us. I'm Jenny Turner, and for the next five weeks we'll be talking to famous people from history about their work and themselves. In the weeks ahead, I'll be talking to Socrates, Napoleon and Queen Elizabeth I, but this week, we're talking about telephones. Did you know that there are about a billion phone lines in the world? That's right. The USA is the country with the most phone lines, about 200 million, but Greece with around 6 million and the UK with around 36 million still have more than one phone line for every two people. Of course, there are still some countries in the world where a phone is an expensive luxury, but for most of us in Europe the phone has become part of our everyday world. And it all started with the work of one man. I'd like to welcome Alexander Graham Bell to the show.

1. Alexander Graham Bell was born in ... A the USA. B Scotland. С Canada.2. Which of Bell's relatives were deaf? A his mother and his wife B his father and his mother С his grandmother and his mother3. What was the problem with the telegraph? A It was too slow. B It sometimes lost the message. С The messages got confused.4. The first phone call was made on ... A March 17th 1867. B March 9th 1906. С March 10th 1876.5. Bell's assistant was called ... A Wilson. B Watson. С Winston.6. How did Bell feel about his invention? A amazed B pleased C nervousTapescriptPresenter Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, welcome to the show.AGB It's a pleasure to be here, Jenny.Presenter I'd like to start by asking you about yourself. When were you born?AGB I was born in 1847, and although we moved around quite a bit as I grew up and I spent a lot of time in the USA and in Canada, I always loved my home town of Edinburgh, in Scotland.Presenter Were any members of your family inventors?AGB No, not really. My father was an actor, and he was interested in helping people who had problems with speaking, although he never invented anything. His wife, my mother, was deaf and I was always interested in helping her so I eventually became a teacher of the deaf.Presenter Really?AGB Yes, that's how I met my wife. She was one of the deaf students I taught to speak. I became very interested in problems of communication.Presenter Such as?AGB Well, at that time, in the middle of the nineteenth century, the only way you could communicate over long distances was by telegraph. That had been invented in 1843. The problem was that one wire could only carry one message. I wanted to find a way for it to carry many messages so that people could communicate much faster.Presenter I see. And were you successful?AGB No, but it was while I was working on that that I realized it was possible to send the human voice over a wire.Presenter When was that?AGB The first phone call was made from my laboratory to the next room on March 10th 1876.Presenter And what were the first words ever spoken by telephone?AGB My assistant Mr Watson, was in the next room and I said: Watson, come here. I want to see you.' The next thing I knew, he came running into the room with a look of amazement on his face. It really was very funny!Presenter And how did you feel at that moment?AGB I was happy and proud, because I knew that it was an invention that would change the world in many ways. I showed my invention to other scientists and I became very famous and very rich very quickly.Presenter Well, the telephone certainly has changed the world. Alexander Graham Bell, thanks for joining us.AGB Thank you.Presenter That's all from Time Traveller this week. Next week, we'll be asking Socrates about life in ancient Athens. Goodbye.